How to learn Kindergarten: Science

Kentucky academic standards: Science, Kindergarten

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1. Kindergarten

1. Asking scientific questions: Ask simple scientific questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways including observation, testing, and research
2. Modelling with Sketches: Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem
3. Reducing Human Impact: Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and other living things in the local environment
4. Observing with simple equipment: Observe closely using simple equipment such as hand lenses, and use observations to describe, compare, and identify things
5. Simple tests and experiments: Perform simple tests and use observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
6. Weather Forecasting & Safety: Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting and how people prepare for and respond to severe weather
7. What Living Things Need: Understand what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive: water, food, air, and suitable conditions
8. Plants and animals in their habitats: Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals and the places they live, connecting organism needs to habitat features
9. How Organisms Shape Habitats: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals can change the environment to meet their needs
10. Local weather patterns: Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time, recording temperature, rainfall, and other conditions
11. Types of Weather: Identify and describe different types of weather — sunny, rainy, windy, snowy, cloudy, foggy, stormy — and describe what the weather is like today using simple vocabulary
12. Weather vs Climate: Distinguish between weather and climate: weather is what the atmosphere is doing right now or today (it can change hour to hour), while climate is the typical pattern of weather in a place over many years
13. Sunlight warms things up: Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface, noticing that sunlight warms the ground, water, and objects
14. Building shade from the sun: Use tools and materials to design and build a structure that will reduce the warming effect of sunlight on an area, such as a shade or shelter
15. Comparing Design Solutions: Analyse data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of each design
16. Simple Design Problems: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost
17. Pushes & Pulls: Understand that pushes and pulls are forces that can change the speed or direction of an object's motion, and compare the effects of different strengths and directions
18. Testing Push & Pull Designs: Analyse data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or pull